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[House  Bill,  No.  41.] 

HOUSE. — Aug.  2G,  1862.  Read  first  and  second  times,  and 
referred  to  Committee  on  Territories.  Sept.  13,  1862.  Reported 
back,  placed  on  calendar  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Russell.] 


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To  be  entitled  An  Act  relating  to  Kansas. 

Whereas,  The  Northern  States  of  the  late  Union  have 
long  endeavored,  by  fraud  and  violence,  to  appropriate  to 
their 'exclusive  advantage,  the  Territories  which  belonged  to 
the  States  in  common,  and  particularly  the  Territory  of 
Kansas,  and  in  pursuance  of  that  design,  have  recognized  in 
Kansas  a  pretended  State  Government,  which  was  set  up  in 
plain  violation  of  law  and  right,  and  have  admitted  the  same 
into  their  Union : 

And  whereas,  Kansas  equitably  belongs  to  the  Confederate 
States,  and  cannot,  without  manifest  danger  to  them  and 
especially  to  the  State  of  Missouri,  be  suffered  to  remain  in 
the  possession  of  an  unfriendly  power. 


1  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enacts  That, 

2  the  President  is  authorized  to  take  and   hold   possession 

3  of  Kansas  as  a  Territory  of  the  Confederate  States,  and 

4  to  establish  therein  a  Territorial  Government,  whenever 

5  he  shall  deem   it  expedient,  applying  for  that  purpose 

6  the  provisions  of  the  Act  establishing  the  government  of 

7  Arizona,  so    far  as    the    same  may  be   applicable,   and 

8  substituting  places  in  Kansas  for  places  in  Arizona,  as 

9  he  may  deem  necessary. 


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